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Don Keeton

Google Instant and Search Engine Results

Google Instant Presents a New Perspective on Search Engine Results

Google’s new search feature—Google Instant—presents a new way of accessing search engine results on Google . . . and it has the Web buzzing. Google Instant actually “predicts” your search results as you’re typing individual letters in the search bar, and it presents the actual results on the page for your consideration, without you having [...]

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Facebook Places and Your Business Listing

Facebook Places: Have You Claimed Your Free Business Place?

Facebook recently introduced a geolocation application called Facebook Places, which provides a potentially powerful way for mobile and socially centric customers to communicate and gather. Although the implications for the business community are evolving, the marketing potential is strong, given that the number of Facebook users has reached 500 million worldwide, and 150 million of [...]

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Website Strategy for the Holiday Buying Season

Are Those Sleigh Bells or Cash Register Bells?

The Christmas buying season starts November 1, and if you’re not making plans today for the Christmas season, it may already be too late! Keep in mind: During the 2009 Christmas season, a record-breaking $27 billion was sold online—a 5% increase over 2008.* For many large companies, the holiday buying season never stops. Orders are [...]

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Web Design Lessons

Web Design Lessons Learned

Web.com has a long history—dating back to the late 1990s—of helping small businesses promote themselves on the Web. In 1999, for example, Bill Clinton was president, most of the world dialed up to the Internet, and people used search engines like Lycos® and HotBot. Although technologies have changed and players have come and gone, we’ve [...]

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Google Maps and Your Local Business Listing

Claiming Your Local Business Listing on the Search Engines

If you run a local business and you haven’t claimed your local business listing on the three mainstream search engines (Google™, Bing™, and Yahoo!®), then read on. Claiming your listing is free and easy to accomplish. So why should you do this? Search engines like Google are committed to making the search for local goods and [...]

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